ALLEGED GAMING HOUSE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 40, 15 February 1918, Page 7

ALLEGED GAMING HOUSE.

ARRESTS IN WELLINGTON. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. Yesterday a number of arrests were effected of alleged bookmakers assisting in the conduct of a common gaming house, and of men found without lawful excuse on such premises. The men arrested .fere: /John Laidlaw Walling, charged with keeping a shop in Willis Street as a common gaming house; Arthur Walling, assisting in the conduct of the above; Jas. Henry Rogers, betting in the Empire Hotel; Percy Winters, betting in the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel; Geo. William I.ees, Edgar Albert Edwards, Frank Greaney, Bernard O'Connell, Arthur Cunningham, George Avery, and Frederick Knigge, charged with having been found without lawful excuse in s common gaming house. On the application of Chief-detective Boddam remands were granted, in the first four cases hail being allowed in the Bum of £25 and one surety of f 25, in the other cases £5. Later in the afternoon the police made further arrests/ Henry Martindale, Clarence le Sueur, and Henry Walls being charged with breaches of the Gaming Act.- --- _ i The- -burteen men appeared in Court this morning. Eleven of them were further remanded. In the charges against O'Connell, Knigge and Avery, of being found without lawful excuse in a common gaming house, the police offered no evidence, and the cases were struck out. Counsel for defendants stated they vent into the shop to make legitimate purchases while the police were still in occupation.